When Nintendo released its latest The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom trailer on Monday, it became increasingly clear how much the new game relates to the rest of the legendary franchise. Echoes of Wisdom will be released on Nintendo Switch on September 26th, but there is still a lot to analyze between now and ...
Kieran Bew knows how important a good beard is. He attributes Hugh Hammer’s success in taming the giant Vermithor in House of the Dragon‘s seventh episode of the season, “The Red Sowing.” “I had a big beard and everyone was debating whether I should shave it off or not,” says Bew. “And I just said, ...
Pre-film adaptations of pop culture have become so commonplace that they are almost parodies in themselves. Do we really need to know how Han got his last name, Solo? Why Poirot grew a moustache? That Cruella de Vil’s mother was murdered by Dalmatians? But that doesn’t mean there aren’t soft spots worth exploring in the ...
World of Warcraft celebrates the 20th anniversary of its release later this year, and like any game that’s been going for a long time, it’s undergone some massive changes over time. The biggest of these usually come in the “pre-patch” updates that usher in major systemic changes just before the release of a new expansion. ...
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for season 1 of Star Wars: The Acolyte.] Darth Plagueis made his live-action debut thanks to the finale of the first season of The Acolyte. The show didn’t mention the Sith Lord much, opting instead to simply show him peeking out from behind a rock and observing the Stranger ...
Innersloth CEO Forest Willard knew almost immediately Among us‘ Breakthrough in 2020 that Innersloth had the resources to support other developers and games. “The idea came about when I heard about some games that already had publishers but were struggling and seeking independence,” Willard said. “The positive thing was that these were always resolved through ...
The weird film by Oz Perkins Long legs does a lot of genre-hopping: it’s part police crime thriller, part serial killer thriller, part supernatural horror film, with lots of little detours that push it further into different subgenres. And it raises lots of questions that it never answers. In particular, the killer – an isolated ...
No one ever said the Star Wars story was clean or simple. But even in this mess of post-Disney canon and oft-ignored legends, there are still areas of utter silliness that are allowed to play an important role in the story. And now the latest episode of The Acolyte has put two of these things ...
[Ed note: This story contains spoilers for House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4.] The Dance of Dragons has just claimed the most influential Targaryen yet. And no, we’re not talking about Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) – we’re talking about Princess Rhaenys (Eve Best), who will be sorely missed after her gruesome, triumphant death in ...
[Ed. note: Spoilers for House of the Dragon season 2 episode 4 follow. There are also possible spoilers and speculation for the rest of the season, but they’re not informed by the Fire & Blood source material.] House of the Dragon hasn’t had many real cliffhangers in its short season and a half so far, ...
